New Aberdeen College

10/21/2026

REFORMATION FESTIVAL: THE FOUNDATION OF ANY GREAT FEAST IS DELICIOUS FOOD.

FRESH, LOCALLY-SOURCED SAUSAGES.
SEASONAL VEGETABLES.
HEARTY BAVARIAN SIDES.
DELECTABLE DESSERTS
OF THE CHOCOLATE OR APPLE VARIETY.

SCHEDULE
6:00 p.m. — B**r and C***r by the Fireside
6:30 p.m. — Dinner Begins
7:15 p.m. — Guest Speaker: Joshua Pauling
7:35 p.m. — Dessert
7:50 p.m. — Reformation Trivia
8:00 p.m. — Update on the College
8:15 p.m. — Nunc Dimittis
8:30 p.m. — More Fireside Fellowship

Friday, October 30
6–9 p.m.
Resurrection Presbyterian Church
2701 Rice Road, Matthews, NC
Cost: $50 per plate

This evening is a celebration of our Reformation heritage and is not a fundraising event.

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10/21/2026

Meet Our Reformation Festival Speaker: Joshua Pauling

How did the Reformation affect the way that we educate our young people?

n addition to the five solas of the Reformation, how should our thinking about spiritual formation and education change?

Pauling is headmaster at All Saints Classical Academy and vicar at All Saints Lutheran Church (LCMS) in Charlotte, NC. He is author of Education's End and co-author with Robin Phillips of Are We All Cyborgs Now? His two-part blog on AI and Classical Education is quite instructive: https://newaberdeencollege.com/what-hath-classical-education-to-do-with-ai-part-1-assessment-and-pedagogy/

Friday, October 30 | 6–9 p.m. | Matthews, NC

Registration closes this Friday, October 23. Reserve your place now before space runs out!
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By Josh Pauling, Guest Contributor In the summer of 2024, Open AI, a leading company in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), released its latest version of ChatGPT, called GPT-4o, where the “o”…

10/20/2026

CONVERSATIONS WITH THE FACULTY

Dr. Smith was asked to describe how classical pedagogical approach is different from the typical college class.

10/19/2026

Get to know more about Dr. Smith's personal experience and passion for Christian education in this new interview:

"What New Aberdeen is building, then, isn't a novelty. It's a restoration. Smith describes the college's mission not as training students for a particular skill set that may be obsolete in a decade, but as developing character, virtue, and wisdom — the durable things, the things that hold under pressure."

Ryan Smith, President of New Aberdeen College, shares how faith shaped a career-defining crisis and why there should be no daylight between belief and work.

10/15/2026

CONVERSATIONS WITH THE FACULTY

Pastor Matt Marino explains how a classical Christian college like New Aberdeen differs from a traditional Bible college education. What are the philosophical and pedagogical distinctions? Listen to Pastor Marino as he shares how we approach theology and Scripture at New Aberdeen College.

10/14/2026

THE QUADRIVIUM IS VITAL TO A VIRTUOUS EDUCATION

According to Andrew Selby, "...the liberal arts tradition generally endorses teaching the mathematical arts at the same time as the verbal arts and rates education in the quadrivium as highly as that of the trivium. Instead of thinking of the quadrivium as primarily useful, the liberal arts tradition thinks of study of the mathematical arts as excellent mental training and even as a road to experience Beauty and God Himself."

Math and science: unpleasant hoops through which we must jump or a ticket to the upper middle class? Contemporary American education presupposes mathematics and science have as their purpose utility. They can get you through school and maybe even make you comfortably wealthy. However, math and scien...

10/13/2026

REFORMATION FESTIVAL

JOIN US FOR AN EVENING OF FELLOWSHIP, MUSIC, AND FRESH, LOCALLY SOURCED GERMAN SAUSAGES AND TRADITIONAL FARE AS WE CELEBRATE OUR THEOLOGICAL HERITAGE.

Friday, October 30
6–9 p.m.
Resurrection Presbyterian Church
2701 Rice Road, Matthews, NC
Cost: $50 per plate

This evening is a celebration of our Reformation heritage and is not a fundraising event.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Josh Pauling, will speak about the Reformation’s lasting influence on education. Pauling is headmaster at All Saints Classical Academy and vicar at All Saints Lutheran Church (LCMS) in Charlotte, NC. He is author of Education's End and co-author with Robin Phillips of Are We All Cyborgs Now? He studied at Messiah College, Reformed Theological Seminary, Winthrop University, and Concordia Theological Seminary. He has also written for New Aberdeen College's blog, CiRCE, Front Porch Republic, LOGIA, Mere Orthodoxy, Public Discourse, Touchstone, and is a frequent guest on Issues, Etc.

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10/07/2026

Dr. Williams shows us how the natural sciences are foundational for the liberally educated man.

https://newaberdeencollege.substack.com/p/science-in-classical-christian-education

10/06/2026

DR. JOSHUA HERRING APPOINTED TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS

We welcome Dr. Joshua Herring to the Board of Directors effective October 1. Dr. Herring is a veteran classical education professor and author of Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve: C.S. Lewis's Images of Gender. He recently founded the Logres Institute and serves as the Curriculum Program Manager for the Rafiki Foundation. He and his wife Jennifer live in Raleigh, where they attend Christ the King Presbyterian Church (PCA).

Dr. Herring's extensive leadership in Classical Christian Education makes him an ideal member of New Aberdeen College's board.

Dr. Herring's passion for the type of education that New Aberdeen offers is apparent in everything that he does. He writes, "We live in a strange era for higher education. On the one hand, more and more small liberal arts colleges are closing. At the same time, bigger schools are further and further away from helping students acquire an authentic liberal education. New Aberdeen defies both of these trends. It is rooted in the Reformed tradition of Christian orthodoxy, which grounds its academic endeavors. But that Reformed tradition lays hold of liberal education and declares that it too belongs to Christ. New Aberdeen College is in the business of helping students love the Lord their God with all their mind, and in so doing become wholly devoted followers of the Lord Jesus Christ."

Welcome to the New Aberdeen community, Dr. Herring!